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KUNC
March 23, 2018
When something like a hurricane or flood hits, response money comes from emergency management budgets. But when a disastrous wildfire hits, that money often comes straight from the Forest Service. In the last few years, the agency has had to cannibalize more and more of its budget to quell wildfires.
The Durango Herald
March 22, 2018
A U.S. House bill seeks to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to focus more on prevention of wildfires rather than emergency ... WASHINGTON – Congress considered legislation Tuesday that seeks to avoid a repeat of the disastrous 2017 wildfire season that ravaged Colorado,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 20, 2018
Share on Google Plus. FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) — Burning tires and trash are keeping a few residents from going home after a wildfire started on a southern Colorado Army post and spread across the post boundary, destroying three homes and several vehicles. Fort Carson spokeswoman Brandy GillÃâà...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
March 13, 2018
Pueblo firefighters had to respond Monday afternoon to a wildfire in the Fountain Creek area near the 4000 block of Jerry Murphy Boulevard. Two engine companies, plus two brush trucks, answered the North Side call, which came about 4 p.m.. A construction company doing drainage work in the creekÃâà...
KOB 4
March 13, 2018
... including 16,898 acres of private land in northeast New Mexico, New Mexico State Forestry Wildfire Prevention and Communications Coordinator Wendy Mason said in the latest update Monday afternoon. An additional 10,750 acres have burned in Colorado while 10 acres have burned in Oklahoma.
CBS Denver
March 13, 2018
BACA COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– A wildfire that is burning in three states, including Colorado, continues to grow. More resources are being brought in to fight the Stateline Fire. Nearly 11,000 acres have burned in Baca and Las Animas Counties in Colorado. The fire actually started in New Mexico andÃâà...
CBS Denver
March 12, 2018
More Human Remains Found Near Hiking TrailMore human remains, clothes and a backpack have been found near a Colorado hiking trail where a human skull was found last week. Denver Zoo Animals Give New Life To Old Fire HosesSome of the animals at the Denver Zoo are giving new life to old fireÃâà...
FOX31 Denver
March 11, 2018
Dry and windy conditions have already led to some massive wildfires and even destroyed homes. A small grass fire that broke out in the town of Elizabeth recently, had Heather Weber worried. It was right down the street from her home. Weber said, “So we just grabbed the girls and the dogs and we wereÃâà...
Wildfire Today (blog)
March 11, 2018
The Stateline Fire burning in Union County, north of Clayton, New Mexico, is currently estimated at 21,253 acres, of which 7,160 acres has crossed over into Colorado. The fire started Thursday morning March 8 on private property in New Mexico. There is no immediate threat to structures at this time.
The Denver Post
March 6, 2018
Southern Lincoln County is facing the brunt of the critical fire danger due to dry conditions and strong winds Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder. The rest of the northeast plains are also susceptible to elevated fire danger, with winds gusting from 20 to 60 mph over the far easternÃâà...
KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News
March 6, 2018
Governor Hickenlooper has declared this week "Flood Safety and Wildfire Awareness Week". To go along with that, we'll be touching on several related topics this week to help you prepare for these threats. We've had our fair share of experience with each issue, so it's a good idea to always be aware of theÃâà...
CBS Denver
March 5, 2018
Strong Winds Raise Wildfire Risk Across Eastern Colorado. March 5, 2018 at 10:10 am. Filed Under:Elbert County, Kiowa, Wildfires. DENVER (AP) — Strong winds continue to raise the risk of wildfires across eastern Colorado. fire in elbert county 5 Strong Winds Raise Wildfire Risk Across Eastern Colorado. (credit: CBS).
Colorado Springs Gazette
March 5, 2018
Fort Carson has started its recovery process after a Sunday grass fire consumed about 270 acres, says a Monday news release. The fire was still smoldering Monday near Gate 5, east of Colorado 115. No injuries were reported and no structures affected, said Fort Carson spokeswoman Brandy Gill.
Colorado College News
March 5, 2018
A poster by three Colorado College students has been accepted for presentation at the 22nd annual Posters on the Hill, to be held April 17-18 in ... Visiting Professor Daniel Ellsworth, both with CC's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, noted that wildfires are extremely dangerous and costly.
The Denver Post
March 4, 2018
Two men can do nothing to save their barn as it is fully involved with fire after a fast moving wildfire spread quickly through dry grasslands on March 4, 2018 in Kiowa. Expand. By Danika Worthington | dworthington@denverpost.com | The Denver Post. PUBLISHED: March 4, 2018 at 2:42 pm | UPDATED: March 5, 2018 atÃâà...
Wildfire Today (blog)
March 4, 2018
Three wildfires broke out in eastern Colorado Sunday while the area was under a Red Flag Warning. A weather station near Fort Carson recorded ... A fire close to Fort Carson south of Colorado Springs burned 644 acres near a housing development. About 400 residents, some of them on the military post,Ãâà...
Bloomington Pantagraph
March 2, 2018
Mike Eliason, a public information officer with Santa Barbara County Fire, passes a burning home as a wildfire rages in Ventura, Calif., on Dec. 5, 2017. Wildfires across California in 2017 contributed to some of the larger casualty claims filed with State Farm. NOAH BERGER, Associated Press.
The Real Deal Magazine
March 2, 2018
One Colorado-based builder told the Journal he's spending $8,500 more on a typical home than he did a year ago. Initially, what set prices rising were a series of wildfires last year in Canada's forests big enough to be seen from space and a U.S.-Canada trade dispute. That disagreement had U.S.Ãâà...
FOX31 Denver
March 2, 2018
GOES-S is the second satellite in an approximately $11 billion effort that's already revolutionizing forecasting with astonishingly fast, crisp images of hurricanes, wildfires, floods, mudslides and other natural calamities. The first spacecraft in the series, GOES-16, has been monitoring the Atlantic and EastÃâà...
The Coloradoan
March 2, 2018
But forest workers and landowners say they have to: In a state where overcrowded forests exacerbate wildfire risk and threaten devastation to key watersheds, dead standing trees are everybody's problem. “There is a way out of this,” Colorado State Forester Mike Lester said. “But it's not going to be easy,Ãâà...
William & Mary News
February 23, 2018
The most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history began on Sept. 6, 2010. For four days, it burned an area roughly 10 square miles around Fourmile Canyon. It destroyed 168 homes, more than any previous fire in Colorado's history. Insurance claims totaled an estimated $217 million, making it the state'sÃâà...
Colorado Springs Gazette
February 20, 2018
Record Indonesian forest fires in 2015 spread haze across a swath of Southeast Asia and, according to a study by Harvard and Columbia universities, hastened 100,000 deaths. Fires are often started by smallholders and plantation companies to clear land for planting. Many areas of Indonesia are prone toÃâà...
Colorado Springs Gazette
February 18, 2018
GOLETA, Calif. — Two female bears badly burned in a Southern California wildfire are settling back into their home in the wild. Los Angeles news station KABC-TV reports that recent photos and GPS tracking data show the bears are moving around and appear to be in good health in Los Padres NationalÃâà...
KUNC
February 12, 2018
“If it's just shortly after the bark-beetle outbreak, it's just needles and small twigs that have dropped to the forest floor,” said West, “but several years after the outbreak, we see the entire tree comes down, and when those wildfires come through, it becomes incredibly hot. So, the intensity if those fires becomesÃâà...
Mountain Town News
February 9, 2018
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. – After the big drought year of 2002, public officials in Summit County got wildfire religion. That year the giant Hayman Fire charred 138,000 acres just across the Continental Divide in the foothills southwest of Denver. In Colorado that same summer, big fires howled at GlenwoodÃâà...
Colorado Springs Gazette
January 31, 2018
photo - FILE - In this Monday Oct. 9, 2017 file photo flames from FILE - In this Monday Oct. 9, 2017 file photo flames from a wildfire consume a home, near Napa, Calif. Insurance claims for last year's deadly California wildfires have reached $11.8 billion, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones saidÃâà...
The Denver Channel
December 31, 1999
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - JUNE 12: An airplane drops flame retardant over the Black Forest Fire on June 12, 2013 north of Colorado Springs, Colorado. ... Wildfires in Kansas have already burned thousands of acres and agricultural officials were prepared to move hay to ranchers who need it most orÃâà...
CBS Denver
December 31, 1999
FOUNTAIN, Colo. (CBS4) – For the second straight day, a wildfire broke out south of Colorado Springs and forced people to evacuate. About 250 homes were evacuated in an area that includes part of northern Pueblo County and part of southern El Paso County, south of Fort Carson. Several building haveÃâà...
The Denver Post
December 31, 1999
A 4,300-acre grass fire southwest of Akron in northeast Colorado prompted the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Saturday afternoon to issue an air quality health advisory for those with heart disease, respiratory illnesses, the very young and elderly. The fire is producing periods ofÃâà...
FOX31 Denver
December 31, 1999
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. -- The weekend's hot, windy weather is a perfect reminder of a threat heating up along the Front Range: Wildfires. Devastating fires can happen at any time in Colorado, but are most frequent from March through November. “These days, it's year round,” West Metro Fire RescueÃâà...
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